Jóga a její vliv na pozornost v předškolním a mladším školním věku

Abstract

The diploma thesis deals with yoga and it's effect on attention in preschool and early school age. The theoretical part talks about the issue of attention in childhood, the components of attention and the circumstances that affect child's development. There is also a description of the history and directions of yoga, the specifics of chlidren's yoga and the principles of the exercise itself. The theoretical part also describes the development of kids in preschool and early school age. The research part is devoted to research that took place in kindergarden and two primary schools in Prague. It lasted three months. There are hypotheses for this work based on the studied literature. The research set and it's creation are described here, as well as the research methods used. It describes the framework of the yoga lesson, attention test for both age groups and in the research part we can find tables of results of each class and their percentage improvement between input and output tests. KEYWORDS Yoga, attention, preschool age, early school age

The diploma thesis deals with yoga and it's effect on attention in preschool and early school age. The theoretical part talks about the issue of attention in childhood, the components of attention and the circumstances that affect child's development. There is also a description of the history and directions of yoga, the specifics of chlidren's yoga and the principles of the exercise itself. The theoretical part also describes the development of kids in preschool and early school age. The research part is devoted to research that took place in kindergarden and two primary schools in Prague. It lasted three months. There are hypotheses for this work based on the studied literature. The research set and it's creation are described here, as well as the research methods used. It describes the framework of the yoga lesson, attention test for both age groups and in the research part we can find tables of results of each class and their percentage improvement between input and output tests. KEYWORDS Yoga, attention, preschool age, early school age